Yeah mine is great too. We have a server down today and he's on vacation but is handling all the inquiries in regards to the server outage. Plus it's jeans day all next week and we're having a cookout.

my boss is the best. today we got another one of our famous early shutdowns, where basically the friday before a 3 day weekend, he sends everyone home at 2pm while still paying them for a full day!

im so glad i stumbled into this job.

I can't agree more..... I have the most a-typical IT job I've ever worked and LOVE IT! My boss is actually an IT guy as compared to "management".... contrary to his title. He typically sides with the IT group when issues arise that might put Finance against IT for example. I work no (or very very little) overtime (2 hours in 8 months). I have no on-call rotation whatsoever, although in an emergency I think we'd be expected to be available (as it should be). I work a union IT job, which is a first for me. (My previous position everyone BUT the IT department was union) which meant they could be rude, ignorant, a55holes, treat you like dirt, act like children, and there was nothing anyone could do about it as "they" were union. I work a 37.5 hour work week with an above average pay-scale, with regular raises which are available for anyone to see (being union). No secrecy about who made how much etc. We get every single stat-holiday (11 I beleive) and we also get an "E.D.O" every month which is just a union negotiated earned day off, to be taken any time you choose (within that month). What else could I want? hmmmmmmm maybe a parking space... but I won't complain about that.

the boss ( current president of the company ) is an old school IT guy, worked on oracle dbs most of his career. so they are very IT friendly here. not to rub it in, but they also pay for our medical and dental insurance.

Same here...officially it's a dress-down day, but unofficially there's a good chance of the boss just saying "screw it, weekend starts Now" at some random point this afternoon. It's definitely pretty cool. :)

The last three 3-day weekends we got an email Friday morning saying we could leave at 1 PM and charge the time to holiday. If we had already taken the day off, we had to charge eight hours to vacation. Oh, and they wanted us to have worked five hours, from our normal starting time of 8 AM to 1 PM.

The last time they did this, a guy Replied To All (don't know if he meant to) complaining that working till 1PM meant not taking a lunch at noon, so it wasn't really a half day off, it was only three hours. He also made some vague reference to rules that hourly employees working five hours had to have a lunch break (95% of our workforce is salaried) blah blah blah.

The CEO was complaining loudly to the HR Manager, "I give them extra time off and still they *****!"

The last three 3-day holidays we got an email Friday morning saying we could leave at 1 PM and charge the time to holiday. If we had already taken the day off, we had to charge eight hours to vacation. Oh, and they wanted us to have worked five hours, from our normal starting time of 8 AM to 1 PM.

The last time they did this, a guy Replied To All (don't know if he meant to) complaining that working till 1PM meant not taking a lunch at noon, so it wasn't really a half day off, it was only three hours. He also made some vague reference to rules that hourly employees working five hours had to have a lunch break (95% of our workforce is salaried) blah blah blah.

The CEO was complaining loudly to the HR Manager, "I give them extra time off and still they *****!"

Today no email announcing we can leave early.

dont you just hate that guy? i worked for a place and the secretary would go out of her way to ruin any gift from the boss like that. she was also a 300 pound man hating lesbian, but i digest...

my boss is the best. today we got another one of our famous early shutdowns, where basically the friday before a 3 day weekend, he sends everyone home at 2pm while still paying them for a full day!

im so glad i stumbled into this job.

We've got the same deal, but Fridays are always jeans days around here! I guess that's balanced out, 'cause we have to wait 'til 2:30 to start our long weekend. You're so lucky with your 2:00 departure :P

my boss is the best. today we got another one of our famous early shutdowns, where basically the friday before a 3 day weekend, he sends everyone home at 2pm while still paying them for a full day!

im so glad i stumbled into this job.

We've got the same deal, but Fridays are always jeans days around here! I guess that's balanced out, 'cause we have to wait 'til 2:30 to start our long weekend. You're so lucky with your 2:00 departure :P

Same here with the jeans every friday. I think we are here for a full day today though. However, the boss isn't here as he already left for vacation yesterday....hmmm.

my boss is the best. today we got another one of our famous early shutdowns, where basically the friday before a 3 day weekend, he sends everyone home at 2pm while still paying them for a full day!

im so glad i stumbled into this job.

We've got the same deal, but Fridays are always jeans days around here! I guess that's balanced out, 'cause we have to wait 'til 2:30 to start our long weekend. You're so lucky with your 2:00 departure :P

Same here with the jeans every friday. I think we are here for a full day today though. However, the boss isn't here as he already left for vacation yesterday....hmmm.

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I am currently out of the office in observance of the Holiday weekend and will return on Tuesday.